Join us for a virtual film screening of Outrider’s “When The Earth Moves” followed by a live Q&A with Tia Nelson.

Tia Nelson, daughter of Earth Day founder Senator Gaylord Nelson, will speak at a virtual Climate Change Coalition program at 7:00 pm (CST) Wednesday, November 18, 2020. Registration is required to receive a Zoom Webinar link: Register Here

The program is free and open to the public. Donations to support the work of the Climate Change Coalition of Door County are gratefully accepted here: Give Today

Nelson, Managing Director for climate at the Outrider Foundation, will present Outrider’s video “When the Earth Moves” and then discuss the environmental movement and its greatest challenge today — climate change. Outrider believes that political and cultural division disrupts climate progress. Thus it works to unite parties and communities in taking responsible action. More on Outrider’s climate initiative is available here: United, We Can Solve This

Nelson is internationally recognized as a tireless champion for environmental stewardship and climate change education. She spent 17 years with The Nature Conservancy as a policy advisor for Latin America and then as the first director of the Global Climate Change Initiative. For this work, she received the EPA’s Climate Protection Award in 2000.

She later returned home to Wisconsin to serve as executive secretary to the Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, which included a gubernatorial appointment as co‐chair of Wisconsin’s Task Force on Global Warming.

The Climate Change Coalition of Door County is a non-partisan organization that through education, outreach and civil dialogue increases public understanding of climate change and its many detrimental impacts at home and around the world. Your donation for the Climate Change Coalition to our fiscal agent, Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership, is tax-deductible as allowed by law. Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership is a 501(c)(3) organization.

George Hawkins, former CEO of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, will give a virtual presentation on the future of water at 7 pm, Thursday, October 29.

This event is free and open to the public. Donations to support CCC’s work are gratefully accepted.

Registration is required to receive Zoom Meeting link.

Communities and their water utilities are facing a fistful of challenges, including aging infrastructure, lack of awareness and trust, inadequate funding, resistance to change — and extreme weather driving both more frequent droughts and floods. Yet a counterbalancing handful of opportunities founded on customer engagement, energy conservation, financial innovation and new techniques both to preserve water and manage storms makes the future of water bright.

George Hawkins faced an extreme version of this fistful of challenges when he joined DC Water in 2009, but in partnership with his board and a talented team he was able to drive a fundamental turnaround at the agency, including the largest green energy program in the mid-Atlantic and broad efforts to green the city. Hawkins will offer lessons learned from this turnaround, interspersed with fascinating stories about delivering water services to an exacting customer base in Washington, DC, and its suburbs in Maryland and Virginia.

After 11 years at DC Water Hawkins launched his innovation-focused enterprises Moonshot LLC and Moonshot Missions, where he helps communities and utilities identify and adopt strategies to deliver better service at lower cost.

Hawkins serves on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, which advises the White House, and on the board of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. He has been a senior lecturer at Princeton University and an executive in residence at American University. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and is a member of the Bar in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.